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Post by formrbcbuc on Jan 24, 2010 10:51:51 GMT -6
Hey guys we'v been looking to have a new pregame chant and one that really worked for us was the "Queen of Victory" speech before gmes. One player would chant/ recite the speech/prayer and at the end the whole tem would yell "Queen of Victory Pray For US!!!". It was very effective and I believe Notre Dame used it. Also any other pregame chants/ prayers/ pregame rituals would be appreciated as we really hav none here. I'm trying to get the guys to sing the school fight song to our crowd after a victory mainly to create a bond between the students and our fans and make us "their" team. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Post by touchdowng on Jan 24, 2010 12:12:27 GMT -6
Singing the fight song is awesome. We started calling our fight song our "victory song" among our FB players. We'd teach it to them during our summer sleepover and we'd break our players into grade levels and have a competition. It was fun but the bottom lines was that it was being taught to all.
After that we rarely spoke about winning the game but usually phrase it "in order to sing, we have to do this and that . . . "
When games are over, we shake the opponent's hand and then GO SING! We then go debrief.
When we win at home we waited for our band and cheerleaders to come down to the field and sing it with us towards our fans. When we win on the road, it's just the team near the visitor bleachers - Our reasoning to not include others at away venues was to not appear that we were rubbing anything in.
As you develop your rituals be sure to include all of your players but be sure to get this stuff done in the off-season so that coaches can actually have fun with it as the clock won't be running in your heads.
Years ago we did the Lord's prayer prior to kickoff. Because we are a public school and we must be sensitive to all beliefs held amongst our kids, we later went to a "period of reflection." We'd use about 1 minute of just quiet time. Kids could congregate however they wanted. Some went to a corner and did the lords prayer while others were just quiet. I made sure the senior captains helped organize this shift. All four were strong Christians and wanted to make sure nobody felt uncomfortable. It went real well.
One of our goals was to NEVER win pregame so we intentionally didn't do any big "rah rahs!" during the time we were on the field warming up with our opponents. When other teams showed up with lots of "rah rah" our kids just ignore and believe they're saving their energy for the game. Just a belief we instilled.
We like to use the saying, "Beware the dog that doesn't bark!"
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